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Wilhelm Frick

convicted at Nuremberg and executed in 1946 1877–1946

Wilhelm Frick served as Reich Minister of the Interior and later Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in German domestic administration and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia through documented office, decisions, supervision or operational conduct. It does not assign every crime committed by an institution or region to one individual.

Aggressive warWar crimesCrimes against humanityHolocaustOther genocidesForced labourAktion T4

Confirmed findings

Frick served as Reich Interior Minister from January 1933 to 1943 and converted Nazi policy into statutes, decrees and administrative rules.
His ministry helped dismantle parliamentary and federal safeguards, exclude targeted groups and give detention and persecution a formal legal framework.
From August 1943 he held the office of Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia, although Karl Hermann Frank exercised much of the practical power there.

Place in the chain of responsibility

Frick's responsibility demonstrates that drafting law and organising administration were active parts of persecution. The profile distinguishes his formal authority in the Protectorate from Karl Hermann Frank's stronger operational control.

Key events and mechanisms

appointment as Reich Interior Minister, January 1933
legal centralisation and racial exclusion under Interior Ministry authority, 1933–1943
appointment as Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, August 1943

No victim-count ranking

The circle records authority, function and agency. Several profiles may describe different parts of the same persecution chain, so profile-level totals must not be added together.

Postwar accountability

The International Military Tribunal convicted Frick of crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity. It sentenced him to death and he was hanged on 16 October 1946.

Limits of the evidence

The profile treats lawmaking and ministerial administration as documented agency without assigning Frick every police action taken under the resulting legal order.

Sources

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